“Caught in the undertow of his salty lemon lips I caught myself drifting helplessly into a soundless summer unconsciousness.”
Nica Gala
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At the age of nineteen Nica Galas published her first book, the autobiographical tome Falling into the Sea which chronicled her short and torrid love affair among the hot beaches and lemon trees in the Gulf of Naples. The breathtaking story opens with Nica and her girlfriends picking bunches of jasmine flower for boys while they cliff-jumped into the sea. An innocent first kiss erupts into an ardent summer entanglement which is cut short one moonlit night when her lover leaps into the dark abyss never to surface, leaving Nica naked on the cliffs screaming his name.
When to wear
This scent is sunshine in a bottle. Wear on cloudy days to invoke the ardor of summer.
All about this fragrance
Vibe check
This is the scent of close, warm air and skin still carrying salt from the water, worn when you want a bright presence that feels intimate rather than loud. It suits a relaxed, flirtatious setting where the room is open and the light is soft, but the mood still has a pulse.
How to wear
Best in spring and summer, especially in warm weather where its citrus and marine notes stay airy and clean. Apply lightly to keep the transparency intact; a few sprays are enough for a fresh, sunlit trail that reads more as a breeze on skin than a heavy cloud.
Who it’s for
For wearers who like citrus with a salty edge, airy florals and fragrances that feel luminous rather than sugary. It will appeal to people who enjoy transparent, modern compositions with a romantic, slightly sensual finish.
Release year
2013
The nose
Josh Meyer is the founder, perfumer and creative director of Imaginary Authors, a Portland-based niche house built around scent as storytelling. His work tends to be vivid, narrative-driven and deliberately unconventional, with compositions that feel literary rather than strictly classical. In Falling into the Sea, Meyer leans into a bright citrus structure and a breezy marine transparency, using fruit, salt and airy florals to evoke heat, youth and longing without weighing the fragrance down. The result fits his signature style: imaginative, emotionally charged and easy to recognize for its bold concept and clear visual mood.
Imaginary Authors’s story
Imaginary Authors is a literary-inspired niche house that builds each fragrance around a fictional book and its imagined writer. The brand’s identity is rooted in narrative, originality and a playful refusal of conventional perfume tropes, turning scent into a piece of world-building as much as a wearable composition.
Falling into the Sea’s concept
Falling into the Sea is framed as the scent of Nica Galas’s fictional memoir, a torrid summer romance set among the beaches and lemon trees of the Gulf of Naples. The story moves from cliff-jumping and first kisses to a tragic disappearance at sea, and the fragrance mirrors that arc with sunlit citrus, salty air and a memory of youthful intensity.
Extra info
Imaginary Authors presents the fragrance as the scent of a fictional autobiographical novel by Nica Galas. It is an eau de parfum and part of the brand’s story-led collection, with the official wear suggestion to use it on cloudy days as a reminder of summer.
“Caught in the undertow of his salty lemon lips I caught myself drifting helplessly into a soundless summer unconsciousness.”
Nica Gala
***
At the age of nineteen Nica Galas published her first book, the autobiographical tome Falling into the Sea which chronicled her short and torrid love affair among the hot beaches and lemon trees in the Gulf of Naples. The breathtaking story opens with Nica and her girlfriends picking bunches of jasmine flower for boys while they cliff-jumped into the sea. An innocent first kiss erupts into an ardent summer entanglement which is cut short one moonlit night when her lover leaps into the dark abyss never to surface, leaving Nica naked on the cliffs screaming his name.
When to wear
This scent is sunshine in a bottle. Wear on cloudy days to invoke the ardor of summer.
All about this fragrance
Vibe check
This is the scent of close, warm air and skin still carrying salt from the water, worn when you want a bright presence that feels intimate rather than loud. It suits a relaxed, flirtatious setting where the room is open and the light is soft, but the mood still has a pulse.
How to wear
Best in spring and summer, especially in warm weather where its citrus and marine notes stay airy and clean. Apply lightly to keep the transparency intact; a few sprays are enough for a fresh, sunlit trail that reads more as a breeze on skin than a heavy cloud.
Who it’s for
For wearers who like citrus with a salty edge, airy florals and fragrances that feel luminous rather than sugary. It will appeal to people who enjoy transparent, modern compositions with a romantic, slightly sensual finish.
Release year
2013
The nose
Josh Meyer is the founder, perfumer and creative director of Imaginary Authors, a Portland-based niche house built around scent as storytelling. His work tends to be vivid, narrative-driven and deliberately unconventional, with compositions that feel literary rather than strictly classical. In Falling into the Sea, Meyer leans into a bright citrus structure and a breezy marine transparency, using fruit, salt and airy florals to evoke heat, youth and longing without weighing the fragrance down. The result fits his signature style: imaginative, emotionally charged and easy to recognize for its bold concept and clear visual mood.
Imaginary Authors’s story
Imaginary Authors is a literary-inspired niche house that builds each fragrance around a fictional book and its imagined writer. The brand’s identity is rooted in narrative, originality and a playful refusal of conventional perfume tropes, turning scent into a piece of world-building as much as a wearable composition.
Falling into the Sea’s concept
Falling into the Sea is framed as the scent of Nica Galas’s fictional memoir, a torrid summer romance set among the beaches and lemon trees of the Gulf of Naples. The story moves from cliff-jumping and first kisses to a tragic disappearance at sea, and the fragrance mirrors that arc with sunlit citrus, salty air and a memory of youthful intensity.
Extra info
Imaginary Authors presents the fragrance as the scent of a fictional autobiographical novel by Nica Galas. It is an eau de parfum and part of the brand’s story-led collection, with the official wear suggestion to use it on cloudy days as a reminder of summer.